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Abdussalam A, Liu H, Mostafa IM, Lou B, Snizhko DV, Zholudov YT, Zhang W, Xu G. VS 4 Nanodendrites with Narrow Bandgaps in Activating Dissolved Oxygen for Boosted Chemiluminescence and Hemin Detection by Unexpected Quenching. Anal Chem 2024; 96:10920-10926. [PMID: 38934123 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c00883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
Abstract
Chemiluminescence (CL)-based analytical methods utilize luminophores that need to be activated with an oxidizing agent to trigger CL emission. Despite its susceptibility to decomposition when exposed to external light or trace metals, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) has been widely used to develop chemiluminescent methods due to the limited number of suitable alternatives for activating chemiluminescent luminophores. Also, analytical methods based on the well-known luminol/H2O2 CL system have low sensitivity. Dissolved oxygen (DO) is a naturally abundant and environmentally benign alternative oxidant for luminol and other CL luminophores. However, DO alone is inactive and needs an efficient catalyst or a coreaction accelerator for its activation. Because of the narrow bandgap of VS4 (ca. 1.12 eV), it can facilitate fast electron-transfer kinetics with an acceptor molecule such as DO. Here, we introduce vanadium tetrasulfide (VS4) to boost CL for the first time. Under the optimized conditions, VS4 nanodendrite catalyzes the generation of reactive oxygen species by activating DO which subsequently reacts with luminol to generate intense CL. It enhances the CL intensity of luminol/DO by about 10,000 times. Surprisingly, hemin remarkably quenches the generated CL of luminol/DO/VS4 nanodendrites, which is completely opposite to its typical enhancement of luminol CL. Based on the remarkable concentration-dependent quenching of the luminol/DO/VS4 nanodendrite CL by hemin, we have developed a sensitive CL method that can selectively detect hemin in the linear concentration range of 1-250 nM and achieved a limit of detection of 0.11 nM. The practical utility of the developed method was demonstrated by the determination of hemin in a pharmaceutical drug for the treatment of acute intermittent porphyria and in human serum. This study demonstrates that VS4 holds great promise in analytical method development.
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Affiliation(s)
- Abubakar Abdussalam
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jilin 130022, China
- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bayero University, P. M. Box 3011, Kano 700006, Nigeria
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jilin 130022, China
- School of Chemistry and Applied Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jilin 130022, China
- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia 61519, Egypt
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jilin 130022, China
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- Laboratory of Analytical Optochemotronics, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv 61166, Ukraine
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- Laboratory of Analytical Optochemotronics, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv 61166, Ukraine
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jilin 130022, China
- School of Chemistry and Applied Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jilin 130022, China
- School of Chemistry and Applied Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Nanomaterial-Based Electrochemical Nanodiagnostics for Human and Gut Metabolites Diagnostics: Recent Advances and Challenges. BIOSENSORS 2022; 12:bios12090733. [PMID: 36140118 PMCID: PMC9496054 DOI: 10.3390/bios12090733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Revised: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Metabolites are the intermediatory products of metabolic processes catalyzed by numerous enzymes found inside the cells. Detecting clinically relevant metabolites is important to understand their physiological and biological functions along with the evolving medical diagnostics. Rapid advances in detecting the tiny metabolites such as biomarkers that signify disease hallmarks have an immense need for high-performance identifying techniques. Low concentrations are found in biological fluids because the metabolites are difficult to dissolve in an aqueous medium. Therefore, the selective and sensitive study of metabolites as biomarkers in biological fluids is problematic. The different non-electrochemical and conventional methods need a long time of analysis, long sampling, high maintenance costs, and costly instrumentation. Hence, employing electrochemical techniques in clinical examination could efficiently meet the requirements of fully automated, inexpensive, specific, and quick means of biomarker detection. The electrochemical methods are broadly utilized in several emerging and established technologies, and electrochemical biosensors are employed to detect different metabolites. This review describes the advancement in electrochemical sensors developed for clinically associated human metabolites, including glucose, lactose, uric acid, urea, cholesterol, etc., and gut metabolites such as TMAO, TMA, and indole derivatives. Different sensing techniques are evaluated for their potential to achieve relevant degrees of multiplexing, specificity, and sensitivity limits. Moreover, we have also focused on the opportunities and remaining challenges for integrating the electrochemical sensor into the point-of-care (POC) devices.
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